quotes about Christmas Card

“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”

“I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.”

“I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.”

“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”

“God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.”

“He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.”

“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press

“Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully”

“I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,”

“To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.”